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Ben Thompson

@benthompson
219 posts
2026-03-03
@EricLevitz I wasn't making a normative argument. Of course I think this is bad. I was pointing out what will inevitably happen with AI in reality
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

@EricLevitz I wasn't making a normative argument. Of course I think this is bad. I was pointing out what will inevitably happen with AI in reality
2026-03-03 View on X
Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...

2026-03-02
@EricLevitz I wasn't making a normative argument. Of course I think this is bad. I was pointing out what will inevitably happen with AI in reality
2026-03-02 View on X
Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.  —  ― Pericles

@EricLevitz I wasn't making a normative argument. Of course I think this is bad. I was pointing out what will inevitably happen with AI in reality
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

2026-01-30
Metaverses
2026-01-30 View on X
The Verge

Google launches Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds using Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US

It's what I had the most fun using Google's Project Genie for, at least right now. … This week, a new generative AI tool …

2026-01-21
Every time [image]
2026-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”

Christina Kyriasoglou /Bloomberg:

You can't think about this issue in isolation, especially if you've decided you're now a national security expert https://stratechery.com/...
2026-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a “massive overreaction”

Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis said Chinese artificial intelligence companies haven't been able …

You can't think about this issue in isolation, especially if you've decided you're now a national security expert https://stratechery.com/...
2026-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”

Christina Kyriasoglou /Bloomberg:

Every time [image]
2026-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a “massive overreaction”

Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis said Chinese artificial intelligence companies haven't been able …

2026-01-20
You can't think about this issue in isolation, especially if you've decided you're now a national security expert https://stratechery.com/...
2026-01-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said selling advanced artificial intelligence chips …

Every time [image]
2026-01-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications”

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said selling advanced artificial intelligence chips …

2025-11-17
Great profile of one of my all-time favorite and most indispensable apps https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-11-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at flight-tracking app Flighty, which often beats airlines' updates; downloads tripled when the FAA reduced air traffic during the US government shutdown

I talked to the Wall Street Journal about an app I used to save my wife 8 hours of hell during Trump's air traffic controller shortage  —  www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

2025-10-20
Great site example! @stratechery was built on Twitter. It was always disappointing it basically died as a distribution channel, but what really bummed me out is that others didn't have the same opportunity to get big enough to manage without. Very glad to see these changes.
2025-10-20 View on X
Engadget

X is “testing a new link experience” that opens links without fully covering an X post, letting users see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS

to make it easier for your followers to engage with your post while browsing links.  For creators, a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach.  This is bec...

2025-09-18
Live demo fails are good tech karma
2025-09-18 View on X
Engadget

A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta announced Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with and without a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more

Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR.  —  Who's excited for smart glasses?

$799: my jaw literally dropped
2025-09-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30

Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.

Live demo fails are good tech karma
2025-09-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30

Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.

2025-05-25
I love how it never occurs to the media that maybe they're just being out-competed, instead of the subject of some sort of conspiracy? Literally anyone can make a podcast. Sorry they don't want to listen to yours. [image]
2025-05-25 View on X
The Information

A look at The Technology Brothers Podcast Network, a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention of Silicon Valley's investors and founders

In recent months, John Coogan and Jordi Hays, co-hosts of “TBPN,” a daily tech news talk show that has captured the attention … X: @willmanidis , @dwr , @manasjsaloi , @thefrandaw...

2025-04-26
This is excellent
2025-04-26 View on X
Pete Koomen

Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with

Millions Of Email Users Now At Risk Of Attack Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : This blog captures my frustration with AI tools for work.  Microsoft and Google are p...

2025-04-13
Tim Cook earned his paycheck
2025-04-13 View on X
Bloomberg

The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”

President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …

2025-04-12
Tim Cook earned his paycheck
2025-04-12 View on X
Bloomberg

The Trump administration excludes smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …